Our “8” hour Yukon bus ride had our cheeks in seats for 11 hours due to a toasted out and roached out VW van fire and road construction of epic proportions. Plus, when one of the two roadside potty’s is out of service it adds more time. I don’t know how a hole in the ground could be out of service though. No mechanical parts really. LOL. Unless it was full.
A long day singing “rocks and trees, and trees and rocks, and water… We played Moose Mania where index cards were passed out, we were asked to draw a moose leg, pass the card back and next person got to draw on your card the other leg, and so on through to the snout, tail and antlers. We all created Picasso’s.
Lunch on the Yukon Highway, cold cuts, salad, beverages, and back to cheeks in seats. I must say, it’s painful with sciatic and an L5 issue to keep my back from hurting. We are glad we’re settled for two nights.
Do you remember the Indiana Jones travel maps? That’s what it feels like to me. Plane to the ship to the train, onto the bus, back to the plane then on a train again and then a bus and onto a plane. It’s not for the faint of heart but thank goodness the cruise line has all of this taken care of for us.
These cabins are vital for roadside overnighting. A place to rest your weary bones, eat a hot meal (by your own brow) but nonetheless welcomed.
Black Spruce, White Spruce, Aspen, Birch, scrub plants juniper looking moss, smelled wonderful as well as other fireweed and low lying wild flowers all dot the landscape. I mentioned earlier about the toasted VW van. I understand why it took us an hour plus wait time for firemen to make sure this ghostly roached skeleton van structure was totally void of any embers or fire starting threats. With the vastness of the Yukon and a forest fire, this would not be a place I’d want to be. dmc
